Notepad++ Alternatives

Notepad++ is described as 'Free open-source code editor and Notepad replacement supporting multiple languages, featuring high speed, low resource usage, privacy focus, and plugin extensibility' and is a leading Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Notepad++ for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Notepad++ alternative is Sublime Text, which is free. Other great apps like Notepad++ are Visual Studio Code, Geany, Kate and Vim.

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  1. Kompad icon
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    Open source note application with desktop, web, and mobile web access features intuitive file organization, folder grouping, color-coded tags, side panel search, auto updates, word and character counts, reading time estimates, and customizable themes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. 4coder icon
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    4coder is a minimalist, cross platform, programmable, code editing environment, catering to the needs of low level programmers. It allows you to use one work flow across Windows, Linux, and Mac (with the exception of your debugger... for now.).

    164 4coder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. NINJA-IDE icon
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    NINJA-IDE (from the recursive acronym: "Ninja-IDE Is Not Just Another IDE"), is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE). NINJA-IDE runs on Linux/X11, Mac OS X and Windows desktop operating systems, and allows developers to create applications for...

    56 NINJA-IDE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. TwistPad icon
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    Twistpad is a fully featured text and code editor for Windows. Twistpad can be used as a simple notepad replacer, or a featured packed editor targeting web and software developers.

    88 TwistPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Rapid PHP icon
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    A specialized editor for Windows blending the speed of a lightweight app with full IDE capabilities, supporting PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, debugging, validation, code formatting, navigation, code reuse, and streamlining web development workflows.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. TextPad icon
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    TextPad is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements. It can edit files up to the limits of virtual memory, and it will work with the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Server 2003 and 2008.

    125 TextPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Kod icon
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    Kod is a programmers' editor for OS X

    Source available at http://github.com/rsms/kod

    Goals and features

    Fully concurrent — loading files, syntax highlighting, etc is distributed across available CPU cores. Minimal waiting time.

    Integrated scripting environment based on No.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Textosaurus icon
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    Simple cross-platform text editor based on Qt and Scintilla.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. EverEdit icon
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    EverEdit is a fast, lightweight, extendable text, source and binary editor for Windows (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003+). While it can serve as a good Notepad replacement, it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Aubrey's gVim icon
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    Aubrey’s gVim is, well, Aubrey's gVim! The project arose out the his personal desire to use Vim as my HTML, CSS, PHP & Javascript editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  11. Ox editor icon
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    Ox is a code editor. It was written in Rust using ANSI escape sequences. It assists developers with programming by providing several tools to speed up and make programming easier and a refreshing alternative to heavily bloated and resource hungry editors such as VS Code and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  12. Haystack IDE icon
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    The canvas-based IDE that makes navigation and refactoring 10x faster.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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